Salesforce.com and VMware are gonna be shacking up together. CEOs Marc Benioff and Paul Maritz are scheduled to make a joint product announcement on “the future of cloud computing” on April 27 in a webcast at the suggestively named vmforce.com, a combination of two of their identifiers. Computerworld and other press think it might have something to do with what they call virtualization as a service whatever that’s supposed to be. There’s also speculation they could conjure up an Amazon-like EC2 infrastructure-as-a-service.

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